November 23, 2021 Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? – Agatha Christie This is my second time reading of a standalone murder-mystery by Agatha Christie, and I find it to be quite a different experience. I’ve…
November 23, 2021 The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa In the wake of Risorgimento (Italian Unification), the aristocratic nobility was threatened with the possible decline of their feudal power. They had to contemplate…
November 23, 2021 Bleak House – Charles Dickens What attracted me to Bleak House was the Chancery Court suit of Jarndyce V Jarndyce. Having always had an interest in stories with legal…
November 23, 2021 Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time #1) Marcel Proust Swann’s Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the rare books that come your way. After…
November 23, 2021 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins This is one of the greatest books I have read in my life. The book is my first Wilkie Collins and I’m really glad…
November 23, 2021 Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë I first read this book back in school for the English class and remember disliking it very much. The characters were too black and…
November 23, 2021 Lorna Doone – R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone, a Romance in Exmoor is a beautiful romance and adventure story set in the South West of England during the Monmouth Rebellion….
November 23, 2021 The Odyssey – Homer Trojan War is ended and the Greeks are returning home with victory and their loot. But the homecoming is not so easy, for they…
November 23, 2021 The Iliad – Homer The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem by Homer, which presents his interpretation of the events that took place during a few weeks…
November 23, 2021 Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple #12) – Agatha Christie Sleeping Murder, the last murder-mystery of the Miss Marple series, is, to me, the best one of the series. It is also one of…